How to Use kelp in a Sentence

kelp

noun
  • The best place to hunt white seabass is in the kelp beds, like this one.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
  • The best place to hunt white seabass is in the kelp beds, like this one.
    — Mike Raabe, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2025
  • The loss of kelp forests along the coast is one of those stories.
    — Ralph Pace, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • At the end of the day, Bood’s boats will be waist-high with kelp.
    — Kathleen Hou, ELLE, 3 Mar. 2023
  • One kind of biofuel comes from kelp.
    — ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • What happens inside kelp forests shapes wider ocean health.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • Yet just removing urchins isn’t enough to bring kelp back on a wide scale.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Anything like egg shells, kelp, shellfish or fish should be well buried in the soil.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • And Laguna has rocky reefs and kelp beds.
    — Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With sea salt, kelp, and algae, a few spritzes of this will add texture to any style.
    — ELLE, 23 Apr. 2022
  • So what do these disappearing sea stars have to do with kelp?
    — Andrew Robinson, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
  • In the water in the distance, a sea otter floats in the kelp.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Now, even the red-algae reefs on which the swirling stands of kelp once stood are in peril.
    — Katherine J. Wu New York Times, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Shy harbor seals peeked up from kelp beds and disappeared in a blink.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Aloe and sea kelp strengthen and hydrate hair from the inside out.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2022
  • Some groups are growing kelp forests or microalgae in the sea.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Monterey Bay divers are restoring kelp forests by killing sea urchins.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Petsch, on the other hand, offers up kelp noodles with kale pesto.
    — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
  • From parasitic plants to kelp forests, Botanize!
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Now 35, Francke helped build the first kelp farm in Maine a decade ago.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
  • Freed from predation, purple urchins razed vast swaths of kelp unchecked.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • The kelp grows on a floating farm, along with mussels and pens full of steelhead trout.
    — Gary Dzen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2018
  • Abalone are very much an indicator of the health of the kelp forest.
    — Richie Hertzberg, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
  • And yet, kelp forests are disappearing fast.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • Unlike coral reefs, no global laws or policies focus on kelp forests.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • The start-up Running Tide wants to use kelp to suck carbon out of the sky.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
  • But once sea urchin populations boomed, there was a widespread loss of kelp forests.
    — Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Along the beaches are colonies of seals and penguins, and just offshore lie golden kelp forests.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Under the right conditions, kelp can grow up to 1 foot in a single day.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • Sireno is a tribute to the sea that contrasts florals like ylang ylang and tuberose with a marine note of kelp.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2022

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